Poverty alleviation or poverty reduction: the contribution of civil society

The role of the transnational community

The role of the transnational community of non-government organizations: governance or poverty reduction?

✍ Janet G. Townsend; Gina Porter; Emma Mawdsley 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 78 KB

## Abstract Non‐government organizations working in development form a transnational community which has a new role in imperialism today. We explored the knowledge economy of this community with NGDOs in Ghana, India, Mexico and Europe and found it to be largely donor‐controlled and generally top‐d